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ATTACHMENT 5 <br />From: Nancy Allen <br />Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2019 2:44 PM <br />To: Ellen Clark <br />Cc: Brian Dolan <br />Subject: ax throwing -additional due diligence you may want to be prepared with <br />Hi Brian and Ellen, <br />I wanted to pass along some food for thought as you prepare for an appeal of the axe throwing <br />lounge. When the application came to the PC, staff had not provided the PC any guidance about blood <br />alcohol or monitoring drinking. As such we pretty much "winged" what we thought a prudent limit is <br />and I am not sure we got this right or not. I hope you can spend time on this and make a good <br />recommendation about the appropriate limit. Also insuring you and the applicant have more detail on <br />how this would be monitored. <br />As you know the PC voted to limit alcohol to 2 drinks/hour. Presumably, that could be 4 drinks for the <br />average axe throwing session of 1 %: hour activity. I would appreciate if you could help the Council <br />validate how much blood alcohol 4 drinks in about 90 minutes could be and if that is a "safe" level. Also, <br />very importantly, how does that get monitored, especially if someone comes over to the lounge after <br />drinking elsewhere previously. <br />Below are a couple articles I found but sure they are the right ones The bottom line is that impairment <br />starts at blood alcohol level of 0.5 and someone is legally drink at 0.8. Most lawyers seem to advise <br />people to not have more than 2 beers/glasses of wine in a 1-2 hour period to stay safe on the <br />road. My read from articles is that most experts would say having 4 drinks in a about a 1 %: hour <br />period (such as the PC proposed) could easily put someone in the 0.5 to 1.0 range of blood alcohol and <br />the person could be impaired. And this assumes they had no drinks to start with. <br />The additional questions you might want to vet in addition to alcohol include: <br />- What is minimum age for attendees/participants? <br />- Should we require closed toe shoes as some ax throwing ventures do? <br />Thank you for doing additional due diligence here. <br />https://www.quora.com/How-much-beer-ti-alcohol-volume-can-a-180-pound-2l-year-old-male-non- <br />commercial-driver-drink-without-�ettin�-a-DUI <br />